Western Philosophy: Ancient, to c 500

From philosopher Agnes Callard, one of todays leading public intellectuals, comes a new and vibrant understanding of Socrates, his work, and his un...

Socrates has been hiding in plain sight. We call him the father of Western philosophy, but what exactly are his philosophical views? He is famous f...

Clemency plays an important role among Livys concepts of value. This work offers a wide-ranging analysis of this virtue, in order to highlight its...

Ciceros De officiis, geschrieben 44 v. Chr., gehört zu den anerkannten Klassikern der Philosophie, ist aber in seinen philosophischen Dimensionen u...

Themistios, a recognised philosopher of his time, is regarded as one of the most successful eulogists of the 4th century AD. For a long time, the r...

Specifically focusing on the relationship between the Eudemian and the Nicomachean Ethics, this collection of essays studies major themes from Aris...

Spanning a wide range of texts, figures, and traditions from the ancient Mediterranean world, this volume gathers far-reaching, interdisciplinary p...

This book showcases a figure whose life and work bridge Classical and Hellenistic Greece. It comprises Tiziano Dorandis comprehensive new edition o...

Gorgiass Thought: An Epistemological Reading is the first monograph published in English entirely devoted to Gorgiass epistemological thought and p...

This is the first monograph devoted to the theology of the Epinomis. It argues that the work offers a revised Platonic conception of the divine bet...

Our understanding of science, mathematics, and medicine today can be deeply enriched by studying the historical roots of these areas of inquiry in ...

Origen has been always studied as a theologian and too much credit has been given to Eusebius implausible hagiography of him. This book explores wh...

In accordance with the purpose of the series Traditio Praesocratica, the present volume, the first in the series, contains the most complete collec...

The ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus (341-270 BCE), though often despised for his materialism, hedonism, and denial of the immortality of the sou...

Boethius is largely underrated in the history of Western thought. Scholarship often regarded him and his era Late Antiquity as mere intermediaries...

Theoretically sophisticated and meticulously situated at the fraught scene of reconciliation between indigenous and non-indigenous peoples in conte...

The series, founded in 1970, publishes works which either combine studies in the history of philosophy with a systematic approach or bring together...

Desiring the Good defends a novel and distinctive approach in ethics that is inspired by ancient philosophy. Ethics, according to this approach, st...

Ever since Vlastos Theology and Philosophy in Early Greek Thought, scholars have known that a consideration of ancient philosophy without attention...

This is the first book to critically address and draw consequences from Badiou's claim that his work is a 'Platonism of the multiple' and that phil...

Der Band nimmt gewisse, mit dem Begriff Theurgie assoziierte Wandlungen innerhalb des spätantiken Neuplatonismus in den Blick. Theurgie wird vor al...

Numerous thinkers have considered the Principle of Non-Contradiction, but none has clearly identified its inherent limitation: that it is itself on...

This volume investigates Proclus' own thought and his wide-ranging influence within late Neoplatonic, Alexandrine and Byzantinian philosophy and th...

Many recent discoveries have confirmed the importance of Orphism for ancient Greek religion, philosophy and literature. Its nature and role are sti...

Two treatises on memory which have come down to us from antiquity are Aristotles On memory and recollection and Plotinus On perception and memory (...

The Unity of Stoic Metaphysics argues that the Stoics were sophisticated metaphysical thinkers responding to Plato's Sophist and forging a bold new...

Tracing practical reason from its origins to its modern and contemporary permutations   The Greek discovery of practical reason, as the skilled per...

One of the best books ever written on the power and practicality of philosophy for building a good and successful life - Tom Morris, bestselling au...

Title first published in 2003. In commemoration of the philosophical interests of Stanley Victor Keeling, the annual lectures in his memory highlig...

Title first published in 2003. In commemoration of the philosophical interests of Stanley Victor Keeling, the annual lectures in his memory highlig...

This collection of essays surveys a wide range of methods of Platonic interpretation, ranging from the dialogues themselves, to Middle and Neoplato...

Phaenias of Eresus (c. 375300 BC) was a member of Aristotle's school, the Peripatos or Lyceum, and a friend and compatriot of Aristotle's successor...

What does life truly mean? Who do I want to become? And how do I get there? These are some of life's biggest questions that are hard to think thr...

With a new introduction placing Plato's great work at the heart of ancient concepts of human organization and justice, this new edition of The Repu...

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